Hoshino Tatsuko Award - Main Prize
The main Hoshino Tatsuko Award for haiku collections by women haiku poets.
- Established
- 2013
- Organizer
- Uehiro Foundation on Ethics
- Category
- Haiku and Haikai
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around November
- Announcement Period
- around March
- Status
- Active
Description
The main Hoshino Tatsuko Award, run by the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education. It covers published haiku collections by women haiku poets. The newcomer prize is managed separately as the Hoshino Tatsuko Newcomer Award.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Parts of the winning work are published in the magazine 'Haiku'
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judging by the selection committee | Minoru Ozawa, Kyoko Kuroda, Hinao Goto, Kazuko Nishimura, Tsubaki Hoshino | — | Announced in the magazine 'Haiku' |
Criteria
- Published haiku collections by female haiku poets are eligible for judging
Related Awards
- Hoshino Tatsuko Newcomer Award
Official Resources
https://hoshinotatsuko-prize.jp/Past Winners
A haiku collection that links shifting scenery and emotion each time a drop of rain falls, with a clear and steady gaze.
A single drop of rain reflects the outline of the season.
A haiku collection that carefully captures the seasonal rituals of Kyoto and the changing seasons across Japan. As the prize-winning collection, it quietly gathers the details of daily life and season.
A poised sequence of poems tracing Kyoto's seasons and everyday life.
"冬泉" is a 星野立子賞 work from the Hoshino Tatsuko Award - Main Prize 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.
A 星野立子賞 work from Hoshino Tatsuko Award - Main Prize 2021-1.
Kobayashi Takako's fourth haiku collection. It captures the balance and breadth of haiku with a contemporary sensibility.
A collection that sharpens ordinary scenes through both metaphor and restraint.
Izumi Tainaka's third haiku collection gathers poems from 2012 to 2018. It connects water, dragons, birds, plants, and subtle seasonal presences through quiet observation and lucid lyricism.
Haiku suffused with the presence of water catch the fresh tremors hidden inside everyday life.
The first haiku collection compiled by Setouchi Jakucho at the age of ninety-five. Through selected haiku and essays, it contemplates solitude, aging, death, remembrance, and the flickering wonder of being alive.
From the depth of being alone, the mystery of life flickers.
"Yoru no Mori" is Komagikone Junko's second haiku collection, gathering 478 poems written through 2016. It turns intimate and painful experiences, including her father's death, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and caring for her mother, into a source of living energy rather than enclosing them in grief.
A haiku collection that crystallizes post-disaster daily life and familial attentiveness into quiet, resilient poems.
櫻翳 is a 詩歌作品 work by 藺草慶子 associated with the 2016 星野立子賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.
櫻翳 by 藺草慶子 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.
Seirei is Masako Takada's third haiku collection. Centered on precise observation and luminous lyricism, it captures everyday scenes with a clear sensibility and lets seasonal language resonate with contemporary life.
Masako Takada's third haiku collection, marked by clear observation and bright lyricism.
的礫 is an award-winning work by 西嶋あさ子. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.
的礫, an award-winning work by 西嶋あさ子.
This haiku collection gathers work from roughly seven years and shows Eriko Tsugawa’s attentive eye for light, seasons, memory, and daily life. Its poems are quiet but vivid, finding movement in small scenes and emotional depth in seasonal detail.
A concise work whose appeal lies in atmosphere, memory, and carefully observed feeling.